It shall be my purpose and it is my duty to make it a fact.
Well, I am here to say to you tonight that I do not agree.
Our first objective will always be to assure nondiscriminatory operation rather than to put an end to programs which are vital to the welfar...
I want to thank each and every one of you who has spent an hour or a dollar with the Urban League, because it is through efforts that you ha...
I want the Government of all of the people to speak with a single voice on this single question.
For, as the problem of civil rights has grown in urgency, it has also grown in complexity.
Will Rogers once made a very wise observation. He said: 'We are a funny people. We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, and...
We shall need to be--as Americans have always been--prudent and practical in what we undertake.
We are going to not just establish a Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke to recommend steps to reduce the incidence of these dise...
This is no small challenge. Small men with small horizons could never be adequate to that challenge.
We must begin to think about the future--about the year 2000--about the foundations we must put in place for a larger, more complex, more ch...
I welcome this opportunity to work with you in this historic period.
In coming to Washington, as you are now, you are tracing steps I myself once walked-as a 27-year-old new Member of the House.
Unless we can do better, two-thirds of all Americans now living will suffer or will die from cancer, from heart disease, or stroke.
Above all, I urge the American people to heed the conclusions of this Commission.
Through most of my career--and through most of your adult lives--the thrust of our public policies and attitudes has been dominated by memor...
Today our system, our society--and our Government, of which you are soon to be part--stand as the most successful in the history of man.
Heart disease, cancer, and stroke can be conquered--not in a millennium, not in a century, but in the next few onrushing decades.
